Error when uploading video - "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extension'"

I cloned the repo and tried to run the example “upload-a-video.py”:

from instapy_cli import client
  
username = 'xxxxx'
password = 'xxxxx'
video = '../docs/video-sample-upload.mp4'
text = 'This will be the caption of your video.' + '\r\n' + 'You can also use hashtags! #hash #tag #now'

with client(username, password) as cli:
    cli.upload(video, text)

But I got an error in the console that said:

Reusing settings: ig.json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "upload-a-video.py", line 9, in <module>
    cli.upload(video, text)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/cli.py", line 105, in upload
    media = Media(file)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/media.py", line 29, in __init__
    self.check_type()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/media.py", line 32, in check_type
    self.media_ext = filetype.guess(self.media_path).extension
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extension'

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

[salahar9]

@b3nab i have the solution, the issue’s origin is actually the filetype library and specifically this line at media.py self.media_ext = filetype.guess(self.media_path).extension filetype is returning None on some videos so to fix it you can use Magic instead of filetype PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/python-magic-bin/0.4.14/ or Pip: pip install python-magic-bin so now in the media.py first : import magic
then change the check_type function to this: `def check_type(self):

    self.media_ext = magic.from_file(self.media_path,mime=True)
    self.media_ext=  self.media_ext.split('/')[1]` 

[keenan14]

Hey guys I have been having the same issue my code was: from instapy_cli import client

username = ‘testing211714’ password = ‘****’ image = ‘posts/keenan.png’ text = ‘This will be the caption of your photo.’ + ‘\r\n’ + ‘You can also use hashtags! #hash #tag #now’

with client(username, password) as cli: cli.upload(image, text)`

But recieved the error: (env) Ryans-MacBook-Pro:InstaAutomaterFirstTry ryankeenan$ python app.py [IG] not found cookie/cookie_file >> login as default Error parsing error response: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) Error is >> Bad Request

Something went bad. Please retry or send an issue on https://github.com/b3nab/instapy-cli

Traceback (most recent call last): File “app.py”, line 9, in <module> cli.upload(image, text) File “/Users/ryankeenan/Desktop/git/InstaAutomaterFirstTry/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/cli.py”, line 153, in upload raise IOError(“Unable to upload.”) OSError: Unable to upload.

I followed @salahar9 advice and imported magic at media.py but the error just changed to: (env) Ryans-MacBook-Pro:InstaAutomaterFirstTry ryankeenan$ python app.py [IG] not found cookie/cookie_file >> login as default Error parsing error response: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) Error is >> Bad Request

Something went bad. Please retry or send an issue on https://github.com/b3nab/instapy-cli

Traceback (most recent call last): File “app.py”, line 10, in <module> cli.upload(image, text) File “/Users/ryankeenan/Desktop/git/InstaAutomaterFirstTry/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/instapy_cli/cli.py”, line 153, in upload raise IOError(“Unable to upload.”) OSError: Unable to upload. Does anyone see where I went wrong??